The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-03

against which its sons had so valantly battled
when presented to the nation as candidate
for the highest civil trust of the world. His
battle cry that answered those who reveled in
| the turbulence of hate was-"Let us have
peace" Among his earliest appointments when
called to the Presidency was Lieutenant Of
Lee under whose eye the memorable charge Of
Pickett's division was made, and later in his ad-
ministration a Confederate soldier and states
men sat in his Cabinet.
PEACE AND BROTHERHOOD.
Thus came peace and brotherhood under the
inspiration of the Victor of victors in our bloody
civil strife and his testament comes from Sara
toga's shaded mount bequeathing fraternal love
and national unity to the Blue and Gray. Well
may civilian welcome in hearty reunion now
the silvered and flIrrowed survivors of the
deadly conflict on Cemetery Hill when such
illustrious teaching and example command ID,
and greet you, in the name of the great North.
now inseparably interviewer with the great
South in sympathy in interest and in fellowship.
Free government is stronger at home and
mightier abroad to-day because of the wounds
of the civil war, and our children and our chill
rows and its irresistible judgments as the surest
guarantee that government of the people, by
the people and for the people" shall not perish
from the earth.
Col. William r. Aylett, who succeeded
Gen. Armistead as commander of the brig
ade upon the death of Gen. Armisted, hav-
ing been chosen to respond ON behalf of the
come, said:
BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE KEYSTONE
STATE COMRADES OF THE GREAT BATTLE FIELD
My Count'ymen Al: We are here to day as
friends and kindred of a common country, sent
to you by the Old Dominion as an expression Of
her love and confidence. When your invitation
reached us it touched our hearts in n tender
place, and the speech of welcome which
has just been delivered so eloqueutly is
worthy of the orator and great State and city
which he represents. Not only do we receive
and shall ever treasure the noble sentiments of
Col Mcclure as the voice of Pennsylvania and
her chief city, but also of those brave men who
met us here twenty-four years ago with valor
that we could not overcome. and who meet us
here tonight with the loving welcome SO dear
to us and to our people.
A TRIBUTE TO THE PRESS.
Not only do we cherish the sentiments so
nobly expressed so warm and true from the
hearts of our brethren of the North, but remem-
beTing the avocation and profession of the
gifted speaker, we hear in loud tones the voice
| of the great American preSS-that power
| mghtier than armies or navies, mightier than
| the swords of kingS-on whose supporting arm
the Goddess of Liberty leans and whose daily
utterances proclaim that peace, friendship and
love once more bind the American people with
the golden bands of indisSoluble and perpetual
| union; the press whose thousand tongues none
can silence, whose champions
"All nnbribed at freedoms altar stand,
Faithful and firm, bright wardens of the land. -
Yes my countrymen, the press and the brave
and generous soldiers of our land have brought
this night, and these scenes to pass. All honor
and love to both. We come as survivors of a
| great battle which illustrated the greatness and
| glory of the American people, and dropping the
curtain over the past, we hail you as our brothers
and sisters with all that love and pride which
must ever thrill the hearts of all good and true
citizens of the continent of the free common
wealthS.
HATRED BURIED.
No more does that spirit animate us which
bt,rl n1 haIi inn,
| pregnable heights-thank God, no more forever
| We have come forth from the baptism of blood
| and fire, in which we were consumed as repre-
SentatveS of the new South, and we have long
years ago ceased to bear in cur hearts any
residuum of the feelings born of the conflict. Did
| an unmany feeling linger in our bosoms, we
would not be here to-day TO grasp the hands of
those who have met us with brothers greeting
| and brothers love. Above the ashes left by
| the war and over the tombs of secession and
African slavery we have created new
empire ne% and !" built which temple abS to 4me
worship together, and over it we have run up
the star-spangled banner, and we cling to il
with all that ancient love which should ever
dwell in the hearts of men and women from the
lands of George Washington and William Penn
l utter it as a sentiment that comes yelling uI
| from every bosom of Virginia and the
South, that a man who would re-
kindle again that feeling which filled ouI
land with death and tears, and grief and mourn
ing with graves and suffering, is not only un
worthy of the high title of an American citizen
but even of that of a human being, and should
find no home or friends on earth or in heaven
LET POLITICIANS BE SILENT.
Let no politician, for selfish and unworthy
purposes, fan the dead embers of fratrcidal
strife, but let the great, warm and generous
heart of our nation, with the thI OBJ of the ocean
as if moved by all the tempests of Gods whole
universe, speak its thundered condemnation of
any effort SO vile, wicked and unworthy. No such
| lessons are taught TO me by. the lives or deeds
7 IgFF
from their sacred tombs. Oh, my country
what calamity was it for the South when the
| assassin's bullet struck down Abraham Lincoln
| In the midst of all the bloody tempest he still
had soft place in his great heart for us, and
| now that the storm has passed and
passion has subsidized, who of the South does
not love and revere his memory aud the mem
ory of the great captain who was kind and mag
| unanimous in the hour of victory ct Appomattox
who said to Lee: Let your men take their
horses home TO make bread, " who, when he bad
triumphed, said: Let us have peace, y and who,
in his dying hour, said that the greatest happi-
ness he felt was 70 see good feeling springing
up between the North and South There Is not
a true man South to-day but who feels as If he
would like TO stand at the tombs of Lincoln and
Grant, to plant flower there and to water il
with a manly tear.
THE BATTLE FLAGS.
In the presence of feeling like this too
sacred and deep for utterance, what matters il
who shall keep the battle flags They passed
|
untouched by dishonor, after a baptism in
blood that made the gray jacket mantle of
| glory, and we are as willing your people should
| keep them as ours. They are In the hands of
our government and brethren, 10 whom our
honor should be as dear =, as their own.
Never again will our old battle flags
wave in strife. They have
| gone down forever, but they went down IN glory
and in honor. They are dead. and we love and
| follow alone now the living flag which floats
| from Key West TO Behring Straits, from Bunker
| Hill TO San Francisco. AS we look al the banner
Of our country floating yonder we only remember
| that since the birth OF our nation Il has been
the emblem Of liberty and the refuge Of the op.
pressed. That Southern and Northern men bore
IL in triumph from Saratoga TO York
town, from LundyS' Lane to New Orleans
and that as united brethren we hoated il over the
walls of Tripoh aud the halls of the MonteZumas;
we forget that it was ever borne against US.
ONE PEOPLE.
And as we see around us men of the North
who have come down South and made our
we hail to-day and henceforth all Americans
everywhere as brothers. aud claim that our
home and kindred extend from sturdy Maine
and the grand old Bay State to where the gentle
breeze sigbs through the orange groves OF
Florida, from where the Mississippi Father OF
Waters, heaves his mighty bosom TO the great
lakes from the great lakes to the
holds in his benunbed grasp
the icebergs Of the Arctic, aud there in sight OF
the continent Of Asia procairns people united
for all time and great I'm all the triunphs Of the
Anglo Saxon race. Buried and sunk out Of sight
forever be the bitter memories Of war and the
grisfs and sorrows Oh the North and South II
We recall them at all let Il be in dream, poetry